After Pearl Harbor some said, the United States has been reduced to a third-rate power.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks at the Air Force Academy Commencement Ceremony | The White House
The city is filled with palazzo owners renting out dreary spaces no better than third-rate hotel rooms.
FORBES: The timeless world of the Venetian aristocracy lives on.
In it, the group says that private companies "will not be allowed to cherry-pick the most profitable contracts, or provide third-rate services".
How many more celluloid panoramas of Manhattan, for example, do third-rate filmmakers need to show us before they realize we get the message?
Just as Watergate was not about a third-rate burglary but the subsequent cover-up, Clinton's peccadillos were not "just about sex" but about Clinton's obstruction of justice.
True, any third-rate politician can steal a policy idea to win votes, but only a first-class leader can embody the most deeply cherished values of a country.
If Dan Loeb was going to leak something to the press to juice the stock price, why would he leak it to a third-rate newspaper like the Telegraph?
FORBES: Dan Loeb Doesn't Snitch To Third-Rate British Newspapers
Is the United States really threatened by a third-rate economic backwater like Iran, a country that is surrounded not only by American military installations but by close American allies?
FORBES: Criticism of Obama's Reset with Russia: First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
There is no question that professors today have historically light teaching loads that often allow them to write third-rate papers, of fourth-rate importance, for fifth-rate journals that almost nobody reads.
The National Pensioners Convention said the proposals "simply tinker at the edges" and that a cap "will help just 10% of those needing care, whilst the majority will be left to struggle on with a third-rate service".
Franklin Roosevelt, who presided over a country with a third-rate army, ordered an industrial transformation of the American economy on a scale that seemed simply out of reach, with the focused, urgent aim of defeating the Nazis.
After Tuesday's Fed rate cut - its third rate cut this year - most experts believe that another UK rate cut in on the cards - although the Bank will be careful to point out that it takes decisions on the basis of the situation of the UK economy.
Unemployment in the state has reached 6.6 percent, the third-highest rate in the country.
They "close out" that is, contest 48% of opponents' jumpers, the NBA's third-highest rate, according to Synergy Sports.
Germans in work put in an average of 1, 430 hours in 2006, the third-lowest rate in the OECD.
ECONOMIST: Germany scandalously underuses immigrants and women
Mr Gore is busy presenting Texas as the Appalachia of the southwest, a place where you cannot breathe without choking, where preachers carry guns while delivering sermons, and where children drop dead at a third-world rate.
That's one-third to one-ninth the rate seen for similar patients at a big hospital.
Energy-rich California, despite the nation's third-highest unemployment rate, has created a mere 20, 000 such jobs.
Macroeconomic Advisers adjusted its expected third-quarter growth rate to 2.4% from 3% after the trade data appeared.
The region has the third-highest crime rate of any metro area in our Best Places for Business and Careers survey.
According to Moody's, a rating agency, the third-quarter delinquency rate of 3.89% was almost a full percentage point below the historical average.
Researchers at Memorial Sloan- Kettering reported in 2002 that a mere 4% of 698 prostate cancer patients who underwent IMRT suffered significant rectal bleeding, less than one-third the rate for older technology.
Now, all foreign currencies must be changed at commercial banks at the official rate, barely a third of the black-market rate.
Sy Harding , editor of Street Smart Report, cites that last Fed tightening cycle as an illustration of a rule of thumb he calls "Three Steps and a Stumble"--the third rate hike kills the bull.
Sam Kazman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute points out the latest research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows SUVs (sport utility vehicles) over 4, 500 pounds have a one-third lower death rate than cars below 2, 500 pounds.
With a population of over 60 million, Italy -- the eurozone's third-largest economy -- has an unemployment rate of 11.2% with public debt to GDP forecast to rise to 128% this year, according to the European Commission.
Brazil famously has a first-world rate of government spending but third-world public services.
Camden's 49% four-year graduation rate in 2012 was the third-worst in the state, behind Asbury Park and Trenton.
Unlike the Californian plan, they will extend to the one-third of subprime borrowers who took out fixed-rate mortgages.
According to a report an Iranian doctor delivered at a recent forum here, Iran has the third highest rate of self-emulation after India and China.
应用推荐